What is ISO 12967-2 —Information viewpoint of health informatics about?
ISO 12967-2 is the second part of an international standard that discusses aspects of health informatics. ISO 12967-2 specifies the fundamental characteristics of the information model implemented by a specific architectural layer of the information system.
ISO 12967-2 provides comprehensive and integrated storage of the common enterprise data and supports the fundamental business processes of the healthcare organization. ISO 12967-2 specifies the information model, without any explicit or implicit assumption on the physical technologies, tools, or solutions to adopt for its physical implementation in the various target scenarios.
The specification is nevertheless formal, complete, and non-ambiguous enough to allow implementers to derive an efficient design of the system in the specific technological environment that will be selected for the physical implementation.
Who is ISO 12967-2 —Information viewpoint of health informatics for?
ISO 12967-2 on information viewpoint of health informatics is useful for:
- Public Health care organizations
- Nursing organizations
- Data analysis companies for hospitals
- Medical and biomedical organizations
- Bioinformatics companies
Why should you use ISO 12967-2—Information viewpoint of health informatics?
ISO 12967 series provides guidance for the description, planning, and development of new systems as well as for the integration of existing information systems, both within one enterprise and across different healthcare organizations. It combines through an architecture integrating the common data and business logic into a specific architectural layer, distinct from individual applications and accessible throughout the whole information system through information services.
ISO 12967-2 specifies the fundamental semantics of the information model to be implemented by the service architecture to integrate the enterprise’s common data and to support the enterprise requirements.
ISO 12967-2 provides guidance on how one individual enterprise can extend the standard model with additional concepts needed to support local requirements in terms of information to be put in common.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN ISO 12967-2:2020 supersedes BS EN ISO 129672:2011, which is withdrawn. BS EN ISO 12967-2:2020 includes some technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
- Use of terms, definitions, and concepts from ISO 13940:2015 (Contsys), with textual alignment throughout the document including figures, to the extent possible and beneficial
- Reference to further standards, such HL7
- Updates to the Bibliography
